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What does family ___________________? In a perfect world, all families should be happy and everyone should ___________________ together. I know ___________________ families that have many problems. Brothers and sisters ___________________ each other, parents who never talk to each other. I wonder why this is. How can you live ___________________ your family members and feel apart from them? There is a lot of talk ___________________ about the ___________________ family life. Divorce is rising everywhere in the world. This means single parents have ___________________ spend with their children, which creates problems. Maybe ___________________ modern life puts too much pressure on families. It ___________________ family life was better a generation or two ago. Is this true for families in your country?

 

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What does family mean to you? In a pfrtece world, all families should be happy and everyone should get on well hgtoeter. I know a lot of families that have many eoblpmrs. Brothers and sisters who don’t like each other, parents who never talk to each other. I wonder why this is. How can you live so close to your family mermbse and feel aarpt from them? There is a lot of talk in the news about the wrkedoabn of family life. Divorce is rising everywhere in the world. This means single estapnr have less time to spend with their children, which sctreea problems. Maybe the stress of morden life puts too much pressure on families. It seems as though family life was better aoegraneint or two ago. Is this true for families in your country?

Reading

Types of families

Answer the questions:

1. What comes to mind when you hear the word “family”

2. Do you get on well with all of your family?

3. There is much talk recently of increased social problems due to family breakdown. Is this true in our country?

4. How far do you know your family tree?

5. What types of families do you know?

A "typical" British family used to consist of mother, father and two children, but in recent years there have been many changes in family life. Some of these have been caused by new laws and others are the result of changes in society. For example, since the law made it easier to get a divorce, the number of divorces has increased. In fact one marriage in every three now ends in divorce. This means that there are a lot of one-parent families. Society is now more tolerant than it used to be of unmarried people, unmarried couple sand single parents. Another change has been caused by the fact that people are living longer nowadays, and many old people live alone following the death of their partners. As a result of these changes in the pattern of people's lives, there are many households which consist of only one person or one person and children. Members of a family - grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins - keep in touch, but they, see less of each other than they used to. This is because people often move away from their home town to work, and so the family becomes scattered. Parents treat their children more as equals than they used to, and children have more freedom to make their own decisions. The father is more involved in bringing up children, often because the mother goes out to work. Increased leisure facilities and more money mean that there are greater opportunities outside the home. Although the family holiday is still an important part of family life (usually taken in August, and often abroad) many children have holidays away from their parents, often with a school party or other organized group. The American family unit is also in the process of change. There used to be mainly two types of families: the extended and the nuclear. The extended family most often included mother, father, children, and some other relatives, such as grandparents, living in the same house or nearby. Then as job patterns changed and the economy progressed from agricultural to Industrial, people were forced to move to different parts of the country for job opportunities. These moves split up the extended family The nuclear family became more prevalent this consisted of only the parents and the children. Today's family can be made up of diverse combinations. With the divorce rate nearly one in two, there is an increase in single-parent homes: a father or mother living with one or more children. Blended families occur when previously married men and women marry again and combine the children from former marriages into a new family. On the other hand, some couples are deciding not to have any children at all, so there is an increase in two-person childless families. There are also more people who live alone; single, widowed, divorced. Now, one in five Americans lives alone.

Match the words of column A with their definitions from column B.

A

1 Any group of people who are united by ties of marriage, ancestry, or adoption, having responsibility for rearing children.

2. A socially recognized union between two individuals that typically involves certain rights

3 .A household consisting of married couples from

4. A household consisting of a husband, a wife,

5 Families formed by the marriage of two people one or both of whom also have children. Also called step-families.

B

A) Blended families B) Family C) Extended family D) Marriage E) Nuclear family

Speaking

Choose one of the following topics and prepare to give your views on it for 2 - 3 minutes.

1 Husbands and wives who both work should share domestic chores.

2. The problems of having a granny in the family.

3. Courses on marriage and family matters in secondary school might be helpful in preserving the family.

4. Home life feels the stress of social life.

5. Marriages at later ages are more stable

Writing

Write as much information as you can about the pictures given below

Use the following key phrases: